Triangles

What do we mean by triangles?

A polygon with three sides and three angles.

A set square.

A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.

(cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.

A love triangle.

(systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.

A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.

Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.

Words that are spelled similarly to triangles:
triangles, triangle, triangled, tringle, tangles, strangles, trangle, tingles, wrangles, triages, kringles, triazoles, cringles, triangel, pringles.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word triangles:
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Words that rhyme with triangles:
angles, bangles, tangles, strangles, dangles, rectangles, spangles, mangles, wrangles, wangles, jangles.

Adjectives that are often used to describe triangles:
similar, equilateral, right, angled, small, open, spherical, congruent, equal, solid, black, isosceles, smaller, red, white, inverted, closed, hatched, equiangular, green, adjacent, oblique, blue, shaded, square, tiny, pink, symmetrical, posterior, yellow, identical, dark, corresponding, following, interlaced, filled, interlocking, elementary, rightangled, double, polar, acute, colored, pythagorean, elongated, equivalent, narrow, flat, obtuse, sided, overlapping, rectangular, shaped, cervical, opposite, gray, romantic, pointing, concentric, connected, irregular, upright, curved, conditioned, incised, empty, alternate.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective triangles:
point, multiplier.

Words that sound like triangles:
triangles, triangle, triangel, triangled, tangles, triangular, strangles, trangle, right triangles, tingles, tringle, trammels, triannual, dangles, twinkles, twangle, trials, travels, tangle, strangle, trickles, terminals, trinkle, tinkles, triennial, trinomials, tangler, wrangles, tribals, tangas, trifocals, straggles, right angles, truncal, triacle, triavil.